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Retail
Wal-Mart, Sears Most ‘Liked’ Retailers
Among the big-box stores, Wal-Mart had the most likes, comments and shares on social media, with more than 40 million in the 2014 holiday shopping season.
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Retail
Costco Share Price Increase Doubles Wal-Mart’s
Costco's share price has risen at a rate nearly double that of Wal-Mart over the past year as its big-box approach to retail has outperformed that of America's largest retailer.
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Special Report
Companies Cutting the Most Jobs
Planned job cuts among U.S. companies in 2014 totaled 450,531 through November, down 5.8% compared to the same period in 2013. According to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, this was…
9:10am ET
Investing
Insider Buying Dominates First Full Week of Trading in 2015
The steep sell-off at the start of the week certainly enticed some insiders to step up to the plate and add to their positions.
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Retail
Sears Dumps E-Commerce Chief
Sears Holdings either pushed its e-commerce chief out the door, or she left of her own accord.
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Retail
10 Shopping Days Until Christmas
The race that began at the start of November and peaked around Thanksgiving is nearly over. Only 12 shopping days remain until Christmas.
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Retail
Walmart Cuts More Prices
Walmart will cut prices until it can cut no more, or until it can no longer make money.
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Retail
Will Sears Stock Price Drop to $0?
Common shareholders are nearly always the ones who take the brunt of a restructuring. Sears Holdings will have to restructure, probably sometime in the first half of next year.
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Retail
Sears Earnings Improve on Tax Benefit and Asset Sales, Not Performance
Sears Holdings reported mixed third-quarter 2014 results before markets opened on Thursday and offered no guidance.
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Companies and Brands
Holiday Retail Sales in Trouble Over Black Friday Weekend
The National Retail Federation reported that the Black Friday weekend was a disaster, which bodes poorly for the balance of the holiday shopping season.
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Retail
E-Commerce Spending Reaches $17.5 Billion
Consumers have spent $17.5 billion via e-commerce during the first 23 days of November. That is an 11% increase over the same period in 2013. The data is for desktop computers, according…
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Retail
Holiday Spending Plans Slow to a Crawl
A new Gallup poll indicates that earlier forecasts of holiday spending display too much optimism.
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Retail
Only 38 Shopping Days Until Christmas
Christmas is five weeks away. Based on the aggressiveness of retail promotions, it would seem the holiday is only days off.
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Jobs
Retailers Expected to Add 750,000 Holiday Jobs
Seasonal jobs and what they pay should boost the economy in the final two months of the year, but that may not last.
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Retail
Could J.C. Penney Follow Sears Down the REIT Road?
Could J.C. Penney be thinking about exploring the creation of a real-estate investment trust (REIT) as Sears announced on Friday? Should it be?